Stephani Ethridge Woodson: Personal website of PVV's Artistic Director. Includes video clips of past PVV projects available for download.

Arizona Child Protective Services: Provides information about one of PVV's partners.

Gila River Indian Community: Provides information about one of PVV's partners.

Center for Digital Storytelling: Homepage of a non-profit organization that uses digital media to assist communities and individuals in telling their stories.

ASU's Herberger College of the Arts: Provides information about one of PVV's partners.

Community Arts Network Reading Room

After School Resources
This comprehensive site connects you to federal resources that support children and youth during the out-of-school hours. It includes community success stories, educational activities for children, access to government guides and research, as well as a database of more than 100 grant and loan programs and links to private non-profit organizations and publications.

Americans for the Arts
Visit the site of this national organization that supports the arts through private and public resource development, leadership and public policy development, information services, and public education and awareness. Connect to the National Arts Policy Clearinghouse and arts education sections. Link to local arts councils across the country, many of which fund or run programs for young people.
http://www.artsusa.org

Art as a Healing Force
As a response to the Columbine High School tragedy, the Colorado Council on the Arts has developed a Web portal on the power of the arts to heal. Sites are annotated, organized and cross-linked by topic (e.g. promoting tolerance, strengthening communities, arts education, etc.) and by arts discipline. The site profiles Web resources on the impact of the arts on communities, individuals, and economies.

Artful Minds
This website is useful for providing educators resources to theoretical information and practical applications about arts education, brain research, and technology use and integration for building a bridge to the learning environments of the 21st century.

ArtsEdge
Access information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum on this site established by the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts.

ArtsEdNet
Browse through these online education services to view lesson plans and resources for teachers as well as to link to other related sites.

Arts Education Partnership
Learn more about the over 100 national organizations promoting arts education in elementary and secondary schools who have joined together to help states and local school districts tap resources through Goals 2000 legislation. Also visit Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections in the Highlights section for information on the arts and preschool learning.

Children's Express
What is Children's Express? Newspapers know there is a youth agenda out there, and they know they are not satisfying it. Children's Express is the news agency with a direct line to what children and young people - from all walks of life in the UK today - think and feel. We can take the hassle out of bringing children's ideas and experiences to your page. All our news and features are researched and prepared by children aged between 8 and 18. They generate and develop story ideas, carry out all the interviews, do all their own digging and produce (with some adult support) the finished copy.

Community Arts Network
The Community Arts Network (CAN) project promotes information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts, that is, art made as a voice and a force within a specific community of place, spirit or tradition. The CAN project is designed and managed by a partnership of Art in the Public Interest, a national nonprofit organization, and The Virginia Tech Department of Theatre Arts' Consortium for the Study of Theatre and Community.

Connect for Kids: Guidance for Grownups
Connect to this information center to learn more about children's issues, data on their needs, and examples of community programs and initiatives that address those needs. Also visit the special section on the arts and youth development.

EDSitement
Link to top humanities sites and view online lesson plans and activities related to the humanities for children at home and in school on this site developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great city Schools, and MCI WorldCom.

The Foundation Center
Learn about more than 600 grantmakers, including private foundations, corporate grantmakers, and community foundations.

The Future of Children
Connect to objective information and analysis of major issues related to children's well being. See how this knowledge translates into program, policy, and institutional developments by accessing this journal produced by the Packard Foundation.

Institute for Museum and Library Services
Learn more about the Institute, an independent federal agency that provides distinct programs of support for libraries and all types of museums--aquariums, art museums, youth museums, historic sites, planetariums, zoological parts, and others--and also encourages partnerships between the two community institutions.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Keep up with the news from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and connect to state arts agencies, many of which fund and/or operate arts education programs.

National Endowment for the Arts
Learn about the National Endowment for the Arts, an independent federal agency, its partnerships, publications and grants programs. Find resources, links, field reports and features on artists and arts organizations.

National Endowments for the Humanities
Visit this Web site of the National Endowment for the Humanities for information on grants for projects in history, language, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities and for access to NEH publications.

Nonprofit Gateway
Connect to this central starting point to access federal agencies.

Wolf Trap Education Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts
Find out about teaching preschool children basic academic and life skills through participation in performing arts activities.

Coming Up Taller Report
Coming Up Taller is a report filled with hope, a narrative about youth learning to paint, sing, write plays and poems, take photographs, make videos and play drums or violins. Here are stories of children who learn to dance, mount exhibitions, explore the history of their neighborhoods and write and print their own books.

This report documents arts and humanities programs in communities across America that offer opportunities for children and youth to learn new skills, expand their horizons and develop a sense of self, well-being and belonging.

Coming Up Taller is also an account of the men and women who share their skills as they help to shape the talents of children and youth and tap their hidden potentials. These dedicated individuals, often working long hours for little pay, are educators, social workers, playwrights, actors, poets, videographers, museum curators, dancers, musicians, muralists, scholars and librarians.

The President's Committee believes strongly in the importance of including the arts and the disciplines of the humanities in the school curriculum. This study looks at what happens to young people when they are not in school and when they need adult supervision, safe places to go and activities that expand their skills and offer them hope.

The individual programs described in this study take place in many locations, some unusual, in their communities. Children, artists and scholars come together at cultural centers, museums, libraries, performing arts centers and arts schools, to be sure. Arts and humanities programs also are based at public radio and television stations, parks and recreation centers, churches, public housing complexes, teen centers, settlement houses and Boys and Girls Clubs. In places unnoticed by mainstream media, acts of commitment and achievement are evident every day.

American Alliance of Theatre and Education
The mission of AATE is to promote standards of excellence in theatre and drama/theatre education by providing the theatre artist and the theatre educator a network of resources and support, a base for advocacy, and access to programs and projects that focus on the importance of drama in the human experience.

The History of Education and Childhood
International archive of links and source materials on the history of education & the history of childhood

Animating Democracy
A project of Americans for the Arts Institute for Community Development and the Arts seeking to strengthen the role of arts in civic dialogue.